So for those familiar with the Sony IP "Infamous" already know the basic gist of the universe and such, which means you already know why this setting is kickass and cool. For those unfamiliar, "Infamous" is a series that's essentially a super hero sandbox game franchise for the PS3 and PS4. Last year we got the third installment to infamous, titled "Infamous: Second Son." In the universe of Infamous, there are people that are called "Conduits," or by the majority of normal people "Bio-terrorists." These are people that have the ability to manipulate and absorb a unique form of matter, as well as even transform their own body into it. Instead of trying to explain it, I'll just use an example of how this works. Lets say you are a conduit that can manipulate smoke. A smoke conduit has the ability to throw blasts of smoke, create smoke clouds to incapacitate people, turn into smoke to dash, hover by creating thrusts of smoke, and travel through vents, fences, etc. by turning their body into smoke and moving forward. However, you need to refill your energy to continue doing this, so you can absorb smoke from fires, vents, and other things that have smoke exhaust. You can also heal yourself from wounds immediately by doing this, or allowing your body to heal naturally, which is exceptionally faster due to conduit genes (essentially you can regenerate from bullet wounds as long as you hide and don't continue to get shot.)

So, the "gimmick" of the games is that while it does have a well written/slightly weird plot, it's still a sandbox game about having super powers. The thing that helps you along is what's called the karma system, where you can choose to either become a hero, or infamous (roll credits (extra points for whoever gets that reference)). The reason this matters is because you gain access to new powers based on whether you're good or evil. Become a hero, you get better healing abilities as well as abilities that merely subdue your enemies. Go evil, you get better at killing people and generally more destructive abilities. This won't matter to much to the RP as I won't be dictating a strict karma system, but this matters for the spoilers I'm gonna share for those that are interested.

Here are spoilers for the first few games but you'll need to know them if you want to get involved in the RP. Here's a hider for everyone.



I was gonna talk about the third game spoilers, but I decided against it as I'm going to have this RP take place between Infamous 2 and Infamous Second Son. In Second Son, it's set up to take place 7 years after the events of Infamous 2, and in the third game there is an established government organization dedicated to hunting and capturing Conduits. You see, due to Conduits like the Beast, a mass panic spread throughout the world in fear of conduits. The head of the "DUP" is a conduit herself, but she actually brought in her first conduit after returning to her military group, gaining the government's trust and allowing her to form an organization to capture other Conduits.

The RP will take place 2 years after the events of Infamous 2, in New York City. The focus will be on a group of 3-4 Conduits, trying to hide and survive on the streets as they avoid the DUP. Eventually though, they'll have to learn one way or another, that you can't run and hide forever.

So now for the rules.

1. I'm only accepting a limited number of CS's as I like to keep groups small since they're easier to manage that way. I'll accept at most 5 CS's and I will wait a week for everyone to apply, and pick from all applied.

2. Posting. I do posting in rounds, where basically I post first to start the round, everyone else responds, and then the round is over and we wait for me to post again to start a new round. Everyone has around a week to reply. If you don't reply, then you get a warning and a strike. If you miss another round after taking a strike, I kick you, not fair for the rest of us if you're not even gonna warn us that you're gonna be away for awhile. If you respond in the round following the one you missed, the strike is removed and you get another chance. If you notify me ahead of time that you can't post, then you won't take a strike.

3. Be polite and listen. If I say something needs to be changed, I'm willing to hear out a reason as to why something shouldn't be changed, I can be fair and if it makes sense to me I'll let it through. However, if I still say it needs to be changed, then you have to change it, that's it. If you don't, or decide to try and fight with me about it, you're out. I don't want to be a dick but I'm not gonna budge on this and if we're not gonna agree and you decide to be rude and try to fight with me or ignore me, then I'll be forced to take action.

That's pretty much it, now for a CS and my own.

Name:
Age: (preferably 18+ but if you can make a compelling argument for a younger character (like an interesting background) then I may allow it)
Gender:
Appearance: (Any form of picture or description is fine.)
Personality: (Give a brief one here. At most a few sentences. I like letting character develop and don't wish to hold a strict guideline on how you should behave character wise)
Power/Capabilities: (What your power is and what you are capable of. Remember, you've had your power for 2 years at most, so don't go too big.)
Background/How you got your powers: (Again, brief please)

and now my own. Heads up, I haven't filled out the personality bit, and of course you can post unfinished CS's so you can explain your power and such to avoid "clone" characters and edit it up before the end of the application period.



And that's pretty much it, cya all soon.

Name: Kei Papillion

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Also has a tattoo of a butterfly with it's wings outstretched across the back of his shoulder blades, the symbol of the Chrysalis gang.

Personality: Living as a criminal for most of his childhood and young adulthood, Kei is a ruthless individual, not afraid of doing what is necessary to survive in the underworld of NYC. His new found powers have only heightened his cold demeanour and made him more of a strategic and deadly killer. His only duties are to himself, and his own goals.

Power/Capabilities: Crystal Conduit - Capable of transforming his body into pure crystal, making himself highly durable, as well as deadlier, with the sharp points of the crystals becoming lance-like weapons. Able to manipulate crystal into shields to protect himself and others, and fir sharp crystal bolts for ranged attacks. Can also manipulate the crystalline structures underground, causing them to protrude up as spikes or to encase/impale opponents. Is, however, weak to vibration and sound-based weapons.

Background/How you got your powers: Kei was a notorious member of a New York gang known as Chrysalis, focused mainly in the business of ambushes, shakedowns, and the occasional assassination. Born into the life at an early age, Kei worked willingly alongside them, until a particular job went bad. Sentenced to die by his fellow gang members, he fought back, his ability awakening during the ensuing firefight. With his new power of crystalline structures, he obliterated most of Chrysalis. For the past year, he has been honing his abilities, while gathering up information around the city in hopes of rebuilding the gang as his own.

Name: Peter Stillman

Gender: Male

Age: 26

Appearance:

Personality: Idealistic to the point where it borders naivety Peter's enthusiasm to learn more and uncover the truth can lead him to appear reckless and headstrong, perhaps even a bit daft. Despite this these qualities have helped him in his career in journalism. Unlike many people, he's quite giddy when it comes to his abilities and extensively practices with them.

Powers/Capabilities: Shadow Conduit - While Peter manipulates one of the more nebulous materials the end results are similar to what most conduits do, using his ability to create constructs, use shadows to facilitate transportation in various ways. While he hasn't been able to turn into a shadow form yet, from the information he's found it seems every conduit is able to manifest in the form of the matter they manipulate.

Background: Peter was there when the beast suddenly appeared in Empire City to destroy it. Being one of the lucky few that escaped its destruction Peter needed to find out why a giant naked molten man came and destroyed his city. When Peter started digging and in the process found the link between the mystery illness and the molten man he was discovered by a fringe group of the remnants of The First Sons who attempted to silence him an in the process unlocked his abilities allowing him to escape. Peter has since been living in New York City using his abilities to investigate the DUP and find out what they do in the shadows.

Well here yah go, hope its not too long, wasn't really sure what was acceptable..

Name: Mosi Martins, a.k.a Oracle
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Appearance:



Personality:
A normal and decent fellow put into a unusual situation. Luckily, he has enough optimism to get him through most situations with more than a ounce of hope. He will try to help those around him within reason. Though sometimes he is paralzyed into inaction due to a tendency to overthink.

Power/Capabilities:
Radio Conduit: Lets one jockey of off airwaves of any kind and listen in on and manipulate them. This lets one listen in on calls, and interface with the mobile network and even connect to the internet. Gives one a kind of sixth sense similar to radar, with the same limitations as an actual radar. With enough communication the user can ride the airwaves, and move from device to device. Apart from other of the usual enhancements common to all conduits, this ability does not yet offer any direct offense abilities

Background/How you got your powers:

There are times when ordinary folk are forced into extraordinary circumstances. There are times when a person is brought face both the best and the worst within. It is often how we deal with these times that really shines light on the quality of ones soul.
So when Mosi got blasted off that radio tower on that fated day, his test had already started. For a while he was carried away by the chaos that engulfed Towerlight city in the beasts wake. He spent his day most of the time roaming and scavenging with the packs of survivors after all a lowly radio technician had little value in these times. Many times he was involved in things he was not proud of, but he did try to be fair. Often times that is all one can ask for in times such as these.

His powers manifested slowly and subtly, initially he wasn't even aware he was using them. Since most of the phone network down then, and radio chatter was low. But he began to hear the voices as the government moved in, started putting things back in order. As the cellphone towers came back online, and radio sets came back into circulation. He began to hear the voices of the city. He heard a thousand prayers, a thousand curses.

For the first time he was in a position to do something, he had the power, the choice. He chose to help them, as much as he could. Most of his powers hadn't awakened still, but he could still find people in trouble. As he helped people, they began to gather round him. Soon he was the leader of small bunch of like minded people, doing their little to help those around them. He began to be called the Oracle, for his strange ability to find trouble almost before it started.

His powers progressed with time as did peace, soon Towerlight city wasn't the hellhole it used to be. At least not as bad. In this time he had lost many of his friends, many of his conduit friends had died suddenly following the beast's death. With conduits becoming a rare and hunted species, Mosi decided it was time to move and start a fresh. These were good times to be anonymous after all.

Any room for a neon powered conduit